Get Your Glass to the Curb

Instead of kicking glass off the curb, the Capital Regional District embarks on an education campaign after a sometimes heated board meeting last week.

In a bid to get more refillable glass back in circulation, the CRD Environment Committee suggested the region remove glass pickup from the roadside blue box recycling program. That didn’t sit well with all members of the CRD board, including Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen who openly voiced his opposition early and often leading up to the April 13 meeting.

He went into that meeting armed with a motion from Oak Bay council supporting the program as-is and alternately requesting exemption if glass was removed from the program.